Inspiring for all women is Always's #LikeAGirl commercial that will air during the Super Bowl. The slogan of the commercial is, "Let's Make #LikeAGirl Mean Amazing Things - Rewrite The Rules - Always." Always is trying to accomplish a change in the way people associate the phrase, "like a girl" to mean bigger and greater things.

In the listing of their commercial on the Always Channel on YouTube they list the description of their Always #LikeAGirl - Super Bowl XLIX commercial as the following:

"For young girls, confidence plummets during puberty and many never fully recover. Always is on an epic battle to end that by changing the meaning of the phrase #LikeAGirl from an insult to mean downright amazing things. It’s inspiring to us, knowing that our original film started to change perceptions. But that’s not enough. We need to reach more girls, women, boys and men—to spread the word big time.

Super Bowl XLIX is the perfect platform, allowing us to reach more than 100 million people, and to ask them to join our cause. Together, we can all empower our young girls, and change the meaning of #LikeAGirl to be the ultimate compliment.

The commercial spot for Always during Super Bowl XLIX is a great place to air this ad because it is the world's most watched Sporting event. There is a social campaign that is closely attached to the campaign that allows girls to Tweet under the hashtag #LikeAgirl to help spread the message and change it that "Like A Girl" can mean great and empowering things. Their message for their social campaign is:

"PLAY #LikeAGirl WIN #LikeAGirl We want to show young girls everywhere that doing things #LikeAGirl is downright amazing. And we’re taking that message to the biggest game of the entire year: Super Bowl XLIX. Take a stand. Join our movement. Let's make #LikeAGirl mean amazing things."

Here's one of the commercials that will be aired during the Super Bowl for Always, the highlight of this one is when the young little girl is asked, "What does it mean to run like a girl?" The little girl respond, "Run as fast as you can!":

At this point pretty much everyone you know has some type of HDTV that is most likely either a 1080p or 720p. It's a standard flatscreen that most people are buying in LED but used to be Plasma in the good old days. Two years ago at CES 2012 people like Samsung brought in their 4K Ultra High Definition models that were 70" inches and sporting that crazy 4K UHD. This was really the moment that ushered in the 4K UHD TV but at that time the prices were prohibitive and nearly insane.

In 2013 at CES companies like Sony showed off their Barvia XBR 900 LED 55" and 65" 4K UHD TV sets with prices that beat the 2012 year price of $25,000. Still no matter where these prices ended up no average consumer was going to touch these TVs no matter how much it looked like water was dripping off of them from a river rafting scene being shown on the set. Shipments of 4K TVs have jumped up to 500 percent last quarter according to CNET and that is good news for you because the supply of them in the market is flush and companies want this in your home showing off maximum pixels.

2014 is the year of the affordable 4K UHD and most stores have a model you can pick up for around $800 - $1,500.

Amazon.com Cyber Monday 4K TV Sale

You can grab a good 4K UHD TV from old faithful in the ecommerce business, Amazon. They'll be offering up an LG 49 inch Smart 4K Ultra High-Definition LED TV for the price of $999 with free shipping if you have Amazon Prime. This puts this TV in most US consumers affordable range and the model looks like it's producing raving reviews on Amazon.

Amazon will also have the Samsung UN55HU6840 55 inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV on sale which is going for $997.99 with Prime shipping. The only catch to this TV is it will be running at 60Hz so you'll have to decide if this is your entry into the market.

Walmart.com will be offering a Cyber Monday 4K TV

This model will be for the Samsung 55 inch 4K Ultra HD 240Hz LED TV for $998 which is an absolute bargain considering you're getthing the 240Hz version. You'll have to catch Walmart's Cyber Monday release time just right because everyone is going to be clamoring over this deal.

BestBuy.com and In Store 4K UHD Deals

Best Buy will be offer the Samsung model for their Ultra High Def TV models featuring the hot new 4K technology this year. Both models that are at screaming prices are Curved designs which ads an even more immersive experience. The first model is the Samsung 55" LED Curved 2160p Smart TV 4k Ultra HD TV in Black that is priced at $1,299.99 and is running with 4.7 stars out of 5 in reviews. The next Samsung model is essentially the same as the 55 inch with a different model # of UN65HU7250FXZA and it is 10 inches larger at 65" showing everything in crystal clear UHD. The price for Best Buy's 65" 4K TV is $1,999.99.

Either way you go, you'll be able to grab a bargain if you're ready to jump into the 4K TV game and get your living room showing more pixels on that screen. You'll be glad you know that right out of the gate places like Netflix are already offering 4K Streaming options to give you stuff to sink you teeth and eyeballs into as soon as you plug in your TV for Christmas!

Multiple local Hawaii news reports have come out stating that a person is being tested for Ebola in Honolulu, HI. The patient has been isolated in their own room and security measures are being taken for people entering or leaving the patients room. The travel history of this Hawaii patient has not been released after being asked by several reporters and investigators.

The Hawaii patient that could have Ebola was admitted into Queen's Medical Center on Wednesday morning October 1st, 2014. An official Ebola test on the patient has not been performed and several tests will be completed first.

A local news reporter with KHON2 asked a representative, "So it sounds like this person does have a fever and recently traveled to West Africa" but the represenative for the hostipal replied, "Again, I can't be th eone to confirm that." Dr. Melissa Viray was quoted as saying, "We are early in the investigation of a patient - very, very, early, who we're investigating that might have Ebola. It's very possible that they do and they have Ebola, I think it's also more likely that they have another condition that presents with similar symptoms."

Internally employees of Queen's Medical Center were alerted that the hospital was, "evaluating a patient for possible symptoms that may be consistent with Ebola." Inside of the hospital there is no official room for containing Ebola but staff has assured they are taking all the necessary precautions to protect employees and visitors to the hosptial in Hawaii.

Officials from Hawaii's State Department of Health issued a statement that confirmed a patient was being isolated in Honolulu, Hawaii for Ebola.

"“The department was notified today of the case and is in the preliminary stages of an investigation into the travel history and clinical presentation of the individual. The patient is still undergoing evaluation and may be diagnosed with a number of conditions other than Ebola,” the statement said. “The department is working closely with the hospital which is following all precautionary measures to ensure the health and safety of patients, staff, and the community.”

“At this time, the department is not releasing any additional information on the patient or the patient’s status,” it added, noting an update would be released as “new information becomes available.”

"The Queen's Medical Center is evaluating a patient for possible symptoms that may be consistent with Ebola.

Queen's wants to underscore that at this time, the patient's history and clinical presentations do not appear to be consistent with Ebola and the patient may be diagnosed with a number of conditions other than Ebola. However, due to the heightened scope of awareness of Ebola, Queen's is taking extra precautionary measures to ensure the safety of patients, physicians, hospital staff, volunteers and visitors. This includes placing the patient in isolation.

Queen's is working closely with the Hawaii State Department of Health to help ensure we care for the patient and protect our community in line with the guidance provided by the Centers for Disease Control.

Ebola is a severe, often fatal disease. Early symptoms include sudden fever, fatigue and headache. Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure.

The Ebola virus is spread through direct contact with blood, secretions or other bodily fluids or exposure to contaminated objects, such as needles. Ebola is not contagious until symptoms appear.

Queen's is bound by patient confidentiality and cannot share any information about the status of the patient."

SCORE:

Royals ( 3-1 ) White Sox

29 years of the Royals not making it into the Playoffs made all Kansas City baseball fans ready to see history happen again.

The Royals move into the 2014 MLB Playoffs by clinching the win against the Chicago White Sox. This ends the drought that dates back to 1985 when the Royals won the World Series playing the St. Louis Cardinals. The Show Me Series / I-70 Showdown Series made history for the Kansas City Royals,

Highlights were shared in real-time across Social Media:

Sports Center Shares: "29 years is a long time. It doesn't get much sweeter than this for the Kansas City Royals."

A lot of people stood in lines for hours just to get their hands on the new iPhone 6. When they got to the counter, there was one decision to make, do you want an iPhone 6 or an iPhone 6 Plus which is larger by .8 inches in size. For those that chose the iPhone 6 Plus they might end up with something no one wants to deal with, a bent iPhone. If you find yourself asking will the iPhone 6 Plus bend? The quick answer is absolutely yes, watch the video below!

After a lot of chatter on social media and tech review outlets started saying that people were reporting that their iPhone 6 was bending while in their pockets. A YouTube user named Lou at Unbox Therapy decided to do the "Official iPhone 6 Bend Test" video to figure whether the iPhone 6 is really bending or not.

Lou from Unbox Therapy was even more interested in doing the bend test because he had noticed a slight dent or bend in the iPhone's aluminum case that showed some signs of bending.

If you watch the iPhone 6 Plus bending video you'll see that Lou is able to take his fingers and press on the phone and literally bend the aluminum so that it has quite a bend right around where the volume buttons are located. A lot of people are noticing their iPhones are bending at this area but there are pictures and reports of all other types of bends and dents in the iPhone.

Places like The Guadian are producing guides on how to pocket the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus to keep from bending the iPhone's case. Most people recommend not sitting down while the iPhone is in your pocket whether it is in your front pocket or your back pocket.

People have now even started calling the Apple iPhone bending issue #bendgate to put a name to the scandal. The stock price of Apple didn't take a hit when iPhone bending rumors started spreading in social media. The famous 9to5mac.com website even did a poll that asked Apple users, "Does the malleability [bending] of Apple's iPhone 6/Plus concern you?" The results were surprising, most people said no shut up. We've included a screenshot of the current results below:

Could this be an issue of style? A lot of people are making fun of the bending issues with the iPhone saying it's the cause of people wearing skinny jeans, being too fat by sitting on their phones or just wear tight jeans altogether. Do you think that changing the type of jeans you wear would help the iPhone bending issue?

We've included the iPhone 6 Bending Test Video below here:

Here is what other people are saying about the iPhone 6 bending on Twitter:

At the same time that information is coming out from the World Health Organization that Ebola deaths are ever increasing in West Africa to 2,630 murders seem to be increasing with workers. In Guinea it was reported by Reuters that eight bodies were found in the village latrine after they had gone missing. Three of the bodies had their throats slit and were clearly murdered as citizens of the cities and country continued to attack health workers and journalists that are trying to spread information about Ebola and how to stay safe from it.

It's been suspected by Guinea's government that the group of workers could have been kidnapped first and then killed later. The health team which consisted of five workers had already been reported as missing after people in the Nzerekore area started throwing rocks at the health workers to get them to leave in fear that they were spreading disinformation about Ebola and part of the problem.

People in West Africa have started to react violently to volunteers, journalists, health workers and Ebola educators because they feel the disease doesn't exsist. The citizens of the different villages throughout West Africa believe if Ebola is not real the health workers have some type of other motive that could be effecting their people. Obviously the violence has stepped up once people start getting murdered over Ebola education by getting their throats slit and dumped in latrines.

Eight Bodies Found After Attack On Guinea Ebola Education Team

A government spokesman said on Thursday that eight bodies, including those of three journalists, were found after an attack on a team trying to educate locals on the risks of the Ebola virus in a remote area of southeastern Guinea. Damantang Albert Camara told Reuters, "The eight bodies were found in the village latrine. Three of them had their throats slit,"

]]>http://www.jaxobserver.com/2014/09/19/ebola-murders-in-guinea-as-health-workers-journalist-wind-up-dead/feed/0Scotland Vote Rigging Possible As Reports Leak Outhttp://www.jaxobserver.com/2014/09/19/scotland-vote-rigging-possible-as-reports-leak-out/
http://www.jaxobserver.com/2014/09/19/scotland-vote-rigging-possible-as-reports-leak-out/#commentsFri, 19 Sep 2014 08:59:52 +0000http://www.jaxobserver.com/?p=16907While headlines across the world tell the story of Scotland voting against independence from the United Kingdom, other reports suggest that voter fraud could be a problem in this historic vote. There have been continued releases of instances where rigging the votes were being done with different methods.

One report is being investigated by police in Glasgow Scotland. It was reported on Yahoo News that election officials have confirmed that police had been called for an investigation after evidence shows that there were at least 10 occurrences where electoral fraud took place in Glasgow. The main problem says that when people showed up to vote for Scottish freedom from the UK the voter's names were already crossed off the list as people that had already voted.

This type of rigged voting is typically called personation where someone impersonates another voter and votes before the person arrives at the poll station. Colin Edgar from Glasgow City Council was quoted as saying, "Somebody turned up to vote, they gave their name, the presiding officer went to cross off their name on their list of voters to give them a ballot paper and found that their name had already been crossed off and a ballot paper already issued to somebody who apparently had the same name."

The investigation will take the ballots that were submitted from duplicate voters and be put in a secure location throughout the night so they can be tested for fingerprints. Police have claimed they will use gloves to handle all of the ballots and paper that was involved in the vote rigging scheme. If the police find that this truly was a case of personation, the votes that were duplicated will be invalid. The votes from the voters that already were marked off the list of voters will not be counted until the investigation can prove whether this is fraud or not.

These are not the only cases of voter fraud however and others are sharing their stories and accounts of Scotland vote rigging and fraud on YouTube and other social media outlets.

This following video is titled, "Scotland Independence vote rigging exposed - Smoking Gun Evidence of vote being rigged!" In the video you can see the ballot papers that say, "Should Scotland be an Independent Country" with a simple Yes or No checkbox. In the video a woman is seen switching the pile of YES votes and shifting them into the NO pile of votes. It was assumed that this was changing the counts as people were still voting that they wanted Scotland to gain freedom from the United Kingdom.

Another instance shows that piles of votes on a table marked NO votes there were ballots on top that clearly had the YES box checked.

The police of Ferguson, MO a suburb of St. Louis had prepared for today's planned protest that aimed to shutdown I-70 as it passed through Ferguson, MO. The protest was planned for 3:00pm and started to show effects as the cars on Interstate 70 started to slow to a hault. The intersection that the protest was effecting was Hanley Road.

The protesters are looking for the officer who is accused of shooting Mike Brown to be officially charged and want Missouri Governor Jay Nixon to appoint a new prosecutor to the case. Other aims of the protest were said to be community engagement, getting citizens to register to vote, creation of civilian review boards to monitor police & protests of police brutality.

The organizer of the protest was Eric Vickers who is a St. Louis Lawyer. “We are taking this direct action on the 10th because we are using the means of civil disobedience that Dr. Martin Luther King used to effect change,” Vickers said in news conference Monday outside the St. Louis County Justice Center. “It is going to cause people some discomfort. It is going to cause inconvenience to people. That is a small price to pay to change the conditions of African-American youth, and it’s a very small price to pay to bring justice to Michael Brown.”

Police had said they plan to protest anyone attempting to block the flow of traffic and keep things orderly. People viewing the disturbance have noted they see arrests taking place as the traffic has started to grind to a halt on I-70.

“It’s against the law to block the interstate like that, everyone knows that,” says Sgt. Al Nothum. “That’s not a deep, dark secret. You just can’t stop on the interstate and purposely block it.”

The hashtags many are using are #MikeBrown, #Ferguson, #MichaelBrown, #StLouis among others. One user released a Vine video that shows the highway backing up on I-70:

Four of those states, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa all have confirmed cases of Enterovirus D68.

Enterovirus 68, is an uncommon strain of a very common virus that typically infects people between summer and through fall.

The virus can cause mild coldlike symptoms including runny noses, coughing and wheezing but Mark Pallansch, director of the viral diseases division at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said this summer's cases are unusually severe and include serious breathing problems.

"It's not highly unusual but we're trying to understand what happened this year in terms of these noticeable and much larger clusters of severe respiratory disease," Pallansch said Monday.

"The number of hospitalizations reported could be just the tip of the iceberg in terms of severe cases," Mark Pallansch told CNN.

Pallansch said the division is looking into the situation. As states continue to send samples to the CDC, the public health agency will get a clearer picture of the number of viral infections being caused.

Like other enteroviruses, EV-D68 appears to spread through close contact with infected people.

To stay healthy, the CDC recommends basic sanitary practices to avoid spreading the virus, including washing hands, avoiding those who are sick, and covering the nose and mouth during sneezes or coughs. Disinfect frequently touched surfaces such as toys and doorknobs, and stay home when you feeling under the weather to avoid infecting others.

Patients affected by the virus range in age from six weeks to 16 years. The virus is expected to spread across the country.

There are no vaccines for preventing EV-D68 infections.

]]>http://www.jaxobserver.com/2014/09/09/enterovirus-d68-spreading-like-wildfire-affecting-hundreds-of-children/feed/0Blue Lobster Found By 14 Year Old Girl In Mainehttp://www.jaxobserver.com/2014/08/26/blue-lobster-found-by-14-year-old-girl-in-maine/
http://www.jaxobserver.com/2014/08/26/blue-lobster-found-by-14-year-old-girl-in-maine/#commentsTue, 26 Aug 2014 23:42:09 +0000http://www.jaxobserver.com/?p=16886Not too long ago in the 17th and 18th century Lobsters were treated as "garbage" food and given to servants and prisoners. Two-hundred or so years can make a big difference as these days, Lobsters are food fit for a King. One of the world's most prized Lobsters was just found by a 14 year old girl near Portland, Maine.

The lobster was a rare blue lobster which had an extremely brilliant royal blue color to it's shell which is caused by a genetic defect. The Maine Lobster Institute says that the Blue Lobster is rare enough that you can expect to only find about one in two million lobsters. They explain that, "The coloration comes from a genetic defect that caused the lobster to produce an excessive amount of a particular protein that gives the lobster that unique coloration.

The girl that found the blue lobster owns her own company which is called Miss Meghan's Lobster Catch and is based out of Pine Point in Scarborough. Meghan LaPlante works with her dad with a student lobstering license and will soon become lobster fisherman with a commercial license and be able to set more traps. After all the buzz around the rare lobster, Meghan and her dad Jay LaPlante have decided to donate it to the Maine State Aquarium in West Boothbay Harbor.

There are lobsters that are more rare than a blue lobster. According to the Maine Lobster Institute they are a red lobster which is one in 10 million lobsters, a yellow lobster which is one in 30 million lobsters and calico lobsters which are one in 30 million as well. There have been recent catches of the rare calico lobster in New Hampshire when Josiah Beringer found a 1.5 pound calico and donated it to the Explore the Ocean World Oceanarium.